Don't know much about it, but I understand that Adobe Audition is more accessible than cool edit. Adobe bought out cool edit and came out with adobe audition. The manual is long and more confusing than gold wave for me though. I haven't been interested in multitrack, just a better noise reduction. http://201.130.111.2:8000/?WMCache=1.wma
--- John Schucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. I joined this list hoping to get some > answers about home recording. > First, I'll list the software I've got access to, > and then, I'll go through > some of the issues and questions. I guess I'll > start out by asking a > general question though. I'm recording live > instruments, not midi. I've > got all the hardware set up, but I'm not sure what > the best software is for > that. Any suggestions? > > I have access to: > > Gold wave > Cool edit Pro 2.0 > Sound forge 6?, not sure. > NTrack Studio, I think I'm on 3.whatever, the one > right before 4, when 4 > came out it didn't seem worth upgrading, though I > can do that easily enough. > > Obviously if somebody recommends something else, > I'll look into that. And > of course, I should have said, I'm asking about > multitrack recording. I > have one sound card, an SB Live! I've got a nice > little four channel mixer > though, a Behringer of some sort, and microphones > and all of that. So, here > are some of my questions. > > I tried using cool edit pro with the JFW scripts. > I'm not sure it's working > quite right under JFW 6, but here's what happened > under older versions. I'd > record a couple of tracks just fine. But then, when > I tried to hit enter on > a track to edit is individually, or selected that > track and then hit f12 to > get it into wave view, it would have about a minute > of the track. I never > did get it back to showing me all of the track, and > it would do this for > each track, so the whole recording was down to a > minute or so, instead of > whatever it was. If I could fix that, I'd try using > cool edit. > > Now with NTrack, one question would be, how do I > match tracks? Let me > explain, suppose I play a guitar track, and I have > an intro, and then a bit > of silence, and then more guitar. So I want the > intro to be just guitar, > and then during the silent bit, I start in with some > drums, and then the > drums and the rest of the guitar track run together. > It makes more sense to > me to put the drums starting in that silence on the > other track, instead of > starting a track recording from the beginning and > just sitting there waiting > for the silence. That way you don't have more > background noise in the > guitar part. But I have no idea how to adjust the > track starting position. > > Also, I've been told for keeping rhythm, people > often generate a click > track. Can either cool edit or NTrack do this? If > not, how do you keep > rhythm? I'm pretty good at it in general, but I > mess it up some times, and > something to help with that could be useful. > > Oh, and another thing, I missed all the sound forge > discussion, but JFW > doesn't seem to be loading any scripts when I run > Sound Forge, pretty sure > it's 6, under JFW 6. So Sound Forge isn't really > working all that well. > > Anyway, that should be enough for now. What I > really need is a sort of > crash course in software for recording. I have > gotten NTrack to at least > record tracks and all that, but I'd like to learn > how to use whatever the > good software is to make better recordings. > Cakewalk seems to be the thing > for midi, but I'm not using midi, though I might get > into that later. I > play a lot of strange ethnic/folk instruments, and > that's what I want to > record right now. So any help would be greatly > appreciated. I'm fairly > sure some of you are making music out there. So > cmon, share the secrets! > (grin) > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email > to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
